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Violation of Women's Human Rights in Nigeria (1966-1999)

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In this report, the recognition given to the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, as provided by the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR)1 was adopted as a working definition. Nigeria acceded to the UDHR on Independence, and so has been bound by these standards since then. In similar vein, the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (the African Charter) recognises human rights as rights that are inherent in all of us simply by birth and existence. They are the rights that we have simply because we were born as human beings. It should be noted that human rights have universal application without bias to gender, race or class (or other social category). In principle, women's human rights are automatically inherent in the general principles of human rights. However, as a result of long standing discriminatory practices against women and the nonrecognition of women's rights as human rights, it has become clear that it is absolutely necessary to make a clear delineation of women's human rights so that they are not constantly ignored and violated under the mistaken belief that women's rights can be effectively recognized and protected in a subsumption to the general principles of human rights.

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